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    NIGERIA: TO RETURN IMMIGRANTS BACK HOME April 1, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Nigeria is in the process of returning its immigrants currently living in Spain and Morocco. This is in a bid to minimize the effects of brain drain that Nigeria is currently facing. Many people leave Nigeria for other countries on the African continent and to the w

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    GHANA: AIRLINE ASSETS ON SALE April 1, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Former Ghana’s National airline has put up its assets up for sale. PriceWaterhouse Coopers, an accounting firm based in Ghana is responsible for the sale of the assets. Offers to purchase the valuable assets in possession of Ghana’s airline will be rec

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    ALGERIA WILL INVEST IN TRANSPORT LINKAGE WITH NEIGHBOURS April 1, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Algeria plans to invest $5-billion in railway transport to link it to Morocco and Tunisia. According to Abdelhamid Laalamia, general manager of Algeria's Societe Nationale de Transport Ferrovier (SNCF), work on the railway lines has already started. "We have already star

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    NIGERIA: GOVERNMENT TO CLOSE LAW SCHOOLS April 3, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Nigeria’s government is planning to close all the schools that teach Law in Nigeria. This was revealed by chief Adebayo Ojo, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice. "We intend to scrap all the campuses and allow individual universities t

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    LIBERIA: NIGERIA IS A FRIEND IN NEED-SIRLEAF April 4, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah "A friend in need is a friend indeed, and that is what Nigeria has been to Liberia," Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Thursday in her farewell speech to members of Nigeria’s security force. She thanked the security officers and urged them to think

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    EGYPT: HUMAN BIRD FLU DEATH TOLL RISES TO THREE April 6, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) The death of an Egyptian girl from bird flu on Wednesday 5th has raised the country's human death toll from the deadly virus to three, MENA news agency reported. According to MENA, the latest death was a 16-year-old girl from a province north of Cairo, who was admitt

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    NIGERIA: PEOPLE DETAINED OVER EATIG DEAD CHICKEN April 6, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Police in Nigeria has arrested 20 people from Dongs in Northen Nigeria for eating birds buried as a result of Avian flu. This follows the burying of birds in Dong by the Committee on Control and Prevention of the spread of Avian Flu in Nigeria. An eye witness s

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    GHANA: NO MORE IMPORTATION OF BIRDS FROM BURKINA FASO April 6, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Ghana's Ministry of Trade and Industry has stopped the practise of importing birds into Ghana from Burkina Faso. This follows the outbreak of bird flu in Burkina Faso. Ghana will also not import poultry products like feathers from Burkina Faso. This is aimed at savi

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    NIGERIA: INSTITUTIONS PRODUCE POOR ENGINEERS April 7, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Government in Nigeria has revealed that over 50,000 engineers produced in the country do not meet the employment requirements. This is according to a professor in Nigeria. "There were as many as 50,000 graduate engineers in the country today. But I regret to say that

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    NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT UNVEILS DESIRE FOR PRESIDENCY April 9, 2006

    Kizza Hajarah (SomaliNet) Atiku Abubakar Nigeria’s vice-president has publicly proclaimed his plans to stand for Nigeria’s government position. He is expected to stand against Nigeria’s president, Olusengun Obasanjo. Though Nigeria’s Obasanjo is still unclear ab

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